Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

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[manna]

Thanks.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Mimi Farina! Wow! How did you meet her?

At a Dulcimer festival/workshop I once had a class on the history of the Dulcimer. We watched a bunch of videos and heard stories of the folk singing Hippies who played in Greenwich Village with Jeanie Richie. I am thinking Mimi and her husband who learned the Dulcimer from Jeanie was on the video.

In those days they played the Dulcimer with a wooden stick called a noter that they ran across the melody string while they strummed and the other 2 strings just droned. Today we play a 3-note chord for each note in the tune allowing for a much more diverse sound and range of music, not just simple folk music but everything from Rock and Roll to classical.

Here is video of my very first Dulcimer teacher, Bing Futch, playing The Gael from Last of the Mohicans. He is using a foot-controlled looper to record each part then play back all the parts at the same time to add to the Melody. Just incredibly awesome! https://youtu.be/vjU6bSNh9qo?si=3iUuOljAKPlCUmKK

[Baldwin77]

Where is it, exactly ? It is ugly.

[Grammy]

It used to be on the east side of 65, just south of Nashville. It was surrounded by a semi circle of confederate flags from the various southern states. There was a years long stink about it, but the Nashville government couldn’t do anything about it because it was on private property. At one point some protesters threw pink paint on it. I believe the owner died and now it has been removed.

It took me years to figure out why it was so ugly (besides the obvious)..... the head was too big! There is a process sculptors use in making a small model of a project. They will make the head out of proportion in the model then scale it properly in the actual sculpture. It’s like this one was never fixed!